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Artificial Intelligence, the Environment and Resource Conflict: Emerging Challenges in Global Governance

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Obasesam Okoi

As AI infrastructures expand rapidly across the globe, they bring into sharper focus the often-overlooked costs of digital innovation, particularly their entanglement with extractive economies and conflict dynamics.

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The Geopolitical Rivalry behind US Chip Export Controls and Its Implications for Canada’s Semiconductor Autonomy

Fred Cheung
Semiconductors constitute the backbone of the modern economy, but Canada relies heavily on imported chips. This context highlights the urgency for Ottawa to strengthen its domestic semiconductor ecosystem.

HIV and the Volatile New World Order: From Declining Pandemic to One Crisis among Many

Warren Parker and Alan Whiteside
In the initial months of the second Trump administration, abrupt policy shifts placed the lives of millions of people living with HIV at risk and significantly weakened global HIV prevention efforts.

Technology at the Borders: Surveillance, Control and Resistance in EU Migration Governance

Fatmanur Delioglu
This paper examines the integration of advanced surveillance technologies in the European Union, the multiple uses of technologies, and their impact on migrants and migration management.
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